“We are members of this organization and talk about the fact that we will stop working there,” said Yardym.

At the same time, he noted that the contacts of Ankara with countries that are not NATO members “are not something exceptional.”

“This does not mean that NATO has the right to dictate their terms to us and tell us who we should meet with whom we must communicate,” the Ambassador said noting that Turkeyis independent “in the construction of its foreign policy.”